Government agencies at all levels selling personal data to marketers
• naturalnews.comHow many times have you gone to your mailbox and found it stuffed with useless junk mail? If you're like most Americans, you find that happens a lot.
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Germany Solar Power Pushing Fossil Fuel Plants To Close
• earthtechling.comGermany’s renewable energy industry has again shown its strength, shattering through another solar power record, as utility company RWE announces it will close fossil fuel power plants as they are no longer competitive.
Incredible Time-Lapse Video Shows Chinese Workers Knitting A Shoe Onto A Billboard
• Business InsiderTo promote Nike's Free Flyknit running shoes, Nike China pulled of this incredible publicity stunt. Workers on harnesses (it doesn't look very safe) knitted a shoe onto a foot in Nanjing.
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Watch the Birdie! -- Why Syria? and Why now?
Mike DuggerThe following is my response to an email I received today asking "Are you ready?" for what is coming with respect to the situation in Syria. I'll characterize my answer as one couched in cynical realism. Things are seldom what they seem.
Big Pharma has monopoly lock on China..
• naturalnews.comIt is no secret to anyone in the natural health community that the pharmaceutical industry has a stronghold on mainstream medicine in the United States....
The Signs Are Hilarious At Switzerland's New 'Drive-In Brothel'
• Business InsiderZurich's new drive-in brothels opened earlier this week and they already raised a few eyebrows.
Print Error: How manufacturers design inkjet printers to waste ink
• naturalnews.comEvery time you print a page on your inkjet printer, the printer forces you to waste ink
Dominos hopes smell-o-vision DVDs will induce pizza cravings
• Mother Nature Network.comIn Brazil, the pizza chain is embedding DVDs with chemicals that release a pizza smell from the DVD player when it heats up.
When will solar be cheap enough? (video)
• treehugger.comThe cost of solar power has been dropping fast! You can see on this very important graph that the reduction in cost has even accelerated lately, making clean power from the sun more cost-competitive with fossil fuels.
X Prize for genomes cancelled before it begins
• newscientist.comIt is an anticlimax, to say the least. Mere weeks before its official start, the genomics X Prize – intended to spur a revolution in fast, cheap and accurate human-genome sequencing – has been abruptly cancelled
Bootleggers go legit as local moonshine gets legalized in many states
• naturalnews.comOnce operated in heavily secluded areas by men prepared to inflict harm on anyone who happened to discover them, the old-time "moonshine" production and "bootlegging" is becoming a much more mainstream operation.
'Biotech ambassadors' engaging in massive Monsanto-backed PR operations to push GMOs into Af
• naturalnews.comThere is a lot of shady business going on in Africa these days, where so-called "biotech ambassadors" are now actively touring the continent and aggressively pushing for acceptance of genetically-modified organisms ......
IKEA aims to eliminate buyer's remorse with nifty augmented reality app
• Mother Nature Network.comTo complement its 2014 catalog, Swedish flat-pack champion IKEA unveils an augmented reality app that enables shoppers to outfit their homes with digital imagery of furniture for a 'perfect fit.'
The Banks of Tomorrow: Think Google and Facebook
• Wired.comWhen you swipe your debit card at the grocery store, no one walks into a bank vault looking for a box with your name on it.
CVS pharmacies 'bribing' customers to abandon medical privacy protections
• naturalnews.comThe CVS/pharmacy corporation recently launched a new pharmaceutical marketing scheme that pushes customers to fill more drug prescriptions at its stores by enticing them with cash prizes and other rewards,....
How 3D Printing Is Changing Etsy
• technewsdaily.comIf you wanted to buy some homespun yarn or a bar of homemade soap, you might go shopping on Etsy.
Who Benefits from the Public Schools?
• pjmedia.comWhat if we look at public schools as profit-making ventures?
The Scariest Man in America
• Common DreamsScary because he claims "We don't have the power to coerce anybody" while providing massive funding to organizations that attack public education, social programs, worker salaries, business regulations, and the environment.
Will the new iPhone be gold?
• dailymailLatest rumours suggest Apple plans to offer the 5S handset in gold or 'champagne'
Shale driller suspends work on protest threat
• ReutersAn oil explorer has suspended drilling in southern England in response to the threat of an escalating protest against fracking, the controversial process used to extract gas and oil from shale deposits that has transformed the U.S. energy market.
Ecuador expected to open Amazon's Yasuni basin to oil drilling -sources
• ReutersEcuador is expected to open part of the Amazon rainforest to oil drilling on Thursday after rich nations failed to back a conservation plan that would have paid the country not to explore in the area, government sources said.
For $300, You Can Buy a Stunning 3-D Printed Version of Yourself
• Wired.comIt might seem a bit gimmicky if the results weren’t so stunning.
Video: Giant robots with evil red eyes will protect humanity
• dvice.comWe've all seen those commercials from multinational companies like IBM touting the next tech breakthrough, and Monsanto promoting some new biotech development.
UPS gets into the on-demand 3D printing business
• dvice.comWhen Staples began selling 3D printers, some believed that it was an example of a major retailer jumping on a trendy tech bandwagon
More than 100,000 want to go to Mars
• clickorlando.comProspective Martians apply for one-way trip to red planet
Watch A Panhandler's Surprising Speech That Ended With Cheers And Chest Bumps
• Business InsiderSubway riders approach their daily commutes prepared to be serenaded by mariachi bands or a capella groups, dodge kicks to face by break dancers, and listen to stories from homeless people asking for some spare change.
Factory chicken slaughterhouses using super-strength chemicals
• naturalnews.comThere is a reason why the conventional poultry industry in the U.S. has been fairly successful in recent years at lowering detected levels of salmonella in chicken.
Bad Day for Liberalism: August 5, 2013
• Lewrockwell.comThe big story on the morning of June 5 was that the New York Times Company sold the Boston Globe for a paltry $70 million. It had paid $1.1 billion in 1993, which was worth $1.76 billion in today’s money.
Jeff Bezos Pays $250 Million for The Washington Post
• Wired.comIn an ironic twist for a tycoon whose company has always kept its distance from the press, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has agreed to pay $250 million cash for The Washington Post.
Comcast proposes six strikes alternative to convert pirates into paying customers
• extremetech.comThe film and music industries have been waging a war against file sharing through the courts for years, but have more recently started working with governments and ISPs to stop sharing at the source.
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